S&T NBACC Fact Sheet
The National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC) is the first national laboratory created by the Department of Homeland Security.
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The National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC) is the first national laboratory created by the Department of Homeland Security.
The Homeland Security Act of 2002 authorized the DHS Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary for Science and Technology, to establish one or more federally funded research and development centers to provide independent analysis of homeland security issues, or to carry out other responsibilities under the Act. In 2009, the MITRE Corporation was selected to operate the Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute (HSSEDI) FFRDC.
FFRDCs act as a vehicle for special research and development contracting within the federal government.
DHS tasked S&T with creating a program to focus on the commercialization of federally funded cybersecurity research.
S&T SwQA is developing innovative approaches to re-duce the risk and cost of software failures.
DHS, through its ITF, is part of the federal response to EO 13636 on Improving Critical Infrastructure Cyber Security, signed by the President on February 12, 2013, and the Presidential Policy Directive-21 on Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience (CISR/PPD-21).
In 2008, based on the need of the Financial Services Sector, S&T began funding the DECIDE project. DECIDE is a software suite that significantly advances state-of-the-art critical infrastructure protection exercises.
The Defense Experimental Research (DETER) testbed project enables cybersecurity researchers to run experiments on a secure "virtual Internet." The testbed provides contained environments that allow researchers to safely test advanced defense mechanisms against "live" threats without endangering other research or the larger Internet. The project was originally jointly funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Science and Technology Directorate and the National Science Foundation.
FMD is a highly contagious dis-ease that can severely affect domestic and wild cloven-hoofed animals, including cattle, swine, sheep, goats, deer and buffalo. Protecting American livestock is critical to the country’s agricultural economy and preservation of food supplies.
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